Example sentences of "but he [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 2 | But he got me started ; the curiosity . ’ |
| 3 | Ooh he kept , but he kept I 'd even worked out my train to , from Ealing down |
| 4 | For example , if the soft sell chap fails to wheedle his client into buying , his partner can ring him up and say : " My colleague 's at an important meeting , but he asked me to call you about this stock . |
| 5 | ‘ But he asked me to marry him , ’ she said feebly . |
| 6 | If you want to know what that actually means see Dr but he asked me to read it out . |
| 7 | But he told me to put it on |
| 8 | ‘ We checked his clothes for bloodstains … there were n't many but he told me to wash his shirt and handkerchief while he had a shower . |
| 9 | But he told me to think upon it and he would come back for an answer . ’ |
| 10 | Certainly , nobody else wanted me , but he said I had character . ’ |
| 11 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 12 | Oh do n't forget these lads , but he said I 've got a present for you lads . |
| 13 | No but he said I did quite well |
| 14 | And I thought he would say something like , you know something really silly , about fifty , sixty thousand , but he said I think a hundred and fifty thousand 's enough . |
| 15 | But he said I think |
| 16 | No but he had I mean he had a screen and er |
| 17 | ‘ I know I went to the ice rink and the pictures with Bill O'Hagan but he knew I went out with other fellows as well . |
| 18 | He was somewhat mollified to find that Armstrong was a cab and he could ride in the back and scowl at me , but he knew I thought it was a lousy idea going down to Brixton to track down Lewis Luther . |
| 19 | So but he thinks I 've got away with it but the pus in my mouth right now |
| 20 | They clammed up after a bit and would n't show me everything , but he thinks I put it all in the water hoping Harry would get tangled in it . ’ |
| 21 | I pointed out that his voice had certainly ceased to be soprano , but he pestered me to teach him the solo for the next eisteddfod . |
| 22 | But he likes me to look nice when we go out anyway which is not often , granted . |
| 23 | Andy Ripley is mad , mad , mad , but he made me laugh . |
| 24 | But he made me do it , I did n't want to do it , but he he he made me do it . |
| 25 | My father knew I would n't do biology , but he made me do chemistry and only a small amount of mathematics . |
| 26 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 27 | But he says I gets on like quite well with Peter and |
| 28 | He should not be named , but he begged me to tell the outside world of the appalling situation where the wounded are dying unnecessarily because the UN are refusing to transport the wounded out of the city . ’ |
| 29 | He means to mend the world , but he needs me to mend his clothes … |
| 30 | ‘ Mr Wilson 's kind , but he makes me feel out of it , ’ whispered Mrs H. Mr Wilson was indeed kind . |